Science, Tech and Gadgets

The Fantastical First 10 Minutes of Netflix's Shadow and Bone Are Here The much-anticipated series adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone arrives tomorrow—which is really only a few hours away at this point—but superfans can get a sneak peek at the first 10 minutes right now. Netflix just streamed a cast event that was capped with the big reveal.Read more... Go to Source

In Sci-Fi Short Muse, an Android Finds Good Reason to Rebel Kay (Taj Atwal) may be an android, but her moral compass proves stronger than the increasingly unstable artist (Paul Ready) who claims she’s his muse—even though his eerie paintings hint at something far darker lurking behind his methods. That’s the set-up for Muse, a new sci-fi short by Azhur Saleem.Read more... Go to Source

Chernobyl Survivors Didn't Pass on Harmful Mutations to Their Children, Study Finds Two new papers out Thursday highlight the aftereffects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident that occurred over 30 years ago. One study might help explain why survivors are more likely to develop thyroid cancer, while another found evidence that these survivors don’t seem to have passed on potentially harmful mutations to…Read more... Go to Source

Researchers Take Down Botnet Pretending to Be Millions of People Watching TV Fraudsters operate off the assumption that it’s way more profitable to think up byzantine ways to cheat people out of money than it is to just, like, work hard and ask for a promotion occasionally. For instance: an Israeli tech company is currently accused of using a very convoluted method to screw advertisers out of…Read more... Go to Source

Ben Shapiro Finally Manages to Get Wood Today in people exhibiting tremendous, just absolutely off-the-charts LDE: Imp-like right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro is asking fellow patriots to go to their local Home Depot and buy a board or something to show their support for voter suppression laws.Read more... Go to Source

The Kids Are Not All Right in the Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 3 Trailer Has anything ever gone right on Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous? Just when the kids think they’ve finally found a way off the island, a storm pulls them back toward the danger. Unable to leave, they’ll discover that Dr. Wu didn’t just make the Indominus Rex. He made something even worse.Read more... Go to Source

WandaVision's Suburban Sadness Is a Reminder of Our Failures—and What Needs to Change Watching Disney+ and Marvel’s WandaVision as someone who I would say is, at best, loosely versed in the MCU means I missed a lot of the subtext io9 has delved deep into. But as someone who regularly writes about destructive systems at Gizmodo’s other subsite, Earther, what stood out to me was not just the struggle…Read more... Go to Source

The 10 Best Movies Mystery Science Theater 3000 Ever Watched Not all bad movies are bad in the same way. Over its 30-plus-year history, Mystery Science Theater 3000 has proved that time and time again by watching movies that suck in a cornucopia of unique ways, some better than others—in fact, some so much better they could be considered fine, if not actually good. In honor of…Read more... Go to Source

YouTubers Succeed In Getting Airbnb Bookings For an Opulent Dollhouse YouTubers successfully booked rentals for a dollhouse on Airbnb, they say. In a video posted on March 31st, famed pranksters Josh Pieters and Archie Manners documented the process of photographing and booking a model 18th-century mansion, with a water bottle and credit card blatantly visible for scale. Their…Read more... Go to Source

Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Adding Pen15 Co-Creator and Star Maya Erskine Things on Tatooine are about to get a little more middle school. That’s because Maya Erskine, best known as the co-star and co-creator of the brilliant Hulu comedy Pen15, has been cast in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars show on Disney+.Read more... Go to Source

NASA Generates Oxygen on Mars, Setting Stage for Crewed Missions NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has captured much of the world’s attention, but an amazing new experiment, in which the Perseverance rover produced a tiny amount of oxygen, is equally deserving of praise.Read more... Go to Source

Electric Bicycles Recalled Over Firmware Issue That Can Cause Unwanted Acceleration The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled Brompton electric folding bicycles over a firmware problem that can cause unwanted acceleration even after users stop pedaling, according to a press release from the government agency.Read more... Go to Source

Why You Should Use a Keyboard and Mouse With Your PS5 or Xbox Series X/S There are plenty of good reasons to hook up a keyboard and mouse to your next-gen console. Not only do peripherals give you greater precision and flexibility while gaming, they also make entering text and using other apps much less of a chore. It opens up ways of using your games box—to browse the web, for…Read more... Go to Source

Oxygen Looks Like It'll Leave You Gasping For Air Director Alexandre Aja is always happy to mess you up. Whether it’s basement alligators in Crawl, flesh-eating fish in Piranha 3D, or surprising serial killers in High Tension, he’s become very skilled at making audiences incredibly, deliciously uncomfortable. His new movie looks to take that to new heights.Read more... Go to Source

Muppet Man Will Bring Jim Henson's Life Story to the Big Screen A long-awaited project for the Jim Henson Company is finally taking a step toward production: Muppet Man, a biopic of puppeteering legend Jim Henson (The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth), has a writer aboard to pen a script about Henson’s remarkable career.Read more... Go to Source

Dearly Beloved, We're Gathered Here to Say Goodbye to the Best Apple TV Remote Friends, family, past and current Apple TV users, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of the very best remote for streaming.Read more... Go to Source

Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke Has Written a Very Peculiar Superhero Comic The Mother of Dragons conquered Westeros; now, she’s coming for the comics industry. Actor Emilia Clarke—who just recently joined the MCU—has written a new superhero comic for Image. It’s titled M.O.M.: Mother of Madness, and it involves significantly more heroin-addicted raccoons than I would have guessed.Read more... Go to Source

Congrats to OnePlus for Making Its Smartwatch Slightly Less Awful The OnePlus Watch launch was catastrophic. Never had a flagship smartwatch since Will.i.am’s infamous Puls smartwatch failed in such spectacular fashion. I recently wrote 2,000 words about how it was the worst smartwatch I’ve ever used. Today OnePlus pushed out an over-the-air update that claims to fix some of the…Read more... Go to Source

Postal Service Cops Are Monitoring Social Media, 'Sensitive' Internal Document Says Add another pushpin to the string wall of America’s shadowy force of postal service cops. Yahoo News reports that the USPS’s security arm, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), monitored social media for potential threats of domestic violence. According to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo…Read more... Go to Source

This Device Proves Apple Could Crush Nintendo (If It Wanted To) My phone time is usually spent sanding down the edges of my mind on TikTok and Twitter, with a “healthy” dose of emailing, calendar massaging, and capital-S Slacking to get things done. But recently, a new category of app has crept up my iPhone Screen Time leaderboard: gaming, especially through platforms like Steam…Read more... Go to Source

MODOK's New Trailer Is Full of Head Jokes and Supervillain Throwdowns If you were somehow uncertain that Hulu’s Marvel animated series about the bigwig in charge of AIM wasn’t going to have a joke or 60 about MODOK’s grand noggin’, well... this trailer’s got you covered.Read more... Go to Source

Trump’s Unfinished Border Wall Could Worsen Texas Flooding Former President Donald Trump’s border wall loomed large in American consciousness throughout his campaign and presidency—and wreaked a path of ecological destruction as he raced to fulfill his promise to build it. And while President Joe Biden has halted construction on the wall, what has been built (or more…Read more... Go to Source

The U.S. Is About to Run Out of People Who Want the Vaccine This week, all 50 states officially opened up eligibility for covid-19 vaccination to all adult residents. But while millions of Americans are still lining up to get their dose, experts warn that the country is quickly approaching a vaccine surplus, with too few takers to meet the supply we have available. Once that…Read more... Go to Source

Radioactive Fallout From Cold War Nuclear Tests Is Still Creeping Into U.S. Honey A spring break assignment for geology students has resulted in the discovery of radioactive isotopes in honey produced along the U.S. East Coast, and at levels higher than expected. The amount of radiation isn’t considered dangerous, but the finding points to the drawn-out legacy of nuclear tests done during the Cold…Read more... Go to Source

Apple's M1 Chip Is a Cruel Reminder of What Android Users Are Missing Out On As an Android user, I sometimes feel defeated after sitting through an Apple event, especially when there are new, covetable tablets like the iPad Pro. It reminds me that there are too few viable alternatives in Android land.Read more... Go to Source

Whole Foods Launching Amazon Palm Reader Payment System in Seattle Whole Foods will launch a palm reader payment system at its Madison Broadway location in Seattle today and has plans to roll out the biometric program at seven more stores in the coming months, according to an announcement early Wednesday. Read more... Go to Source

MailOnline Sues Google for 'Hiding' Links to News Stories MailOnline, a news site associated with the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, has sued Google over allegations the tech giant has been “hiding” links to its news stories. Google calls the allegations “meritless.”Read more... Go to Source

Bowers & Wilkins' New Wireless Earbuds Can Stream Audio From Devices Without Bluetooth, Including Airplane Seats Every new set of true wireless earbuds seems to refine the experience with better ANC, improved sound quality, or longer battery life. But Bowers & Wilkins is introducing an entirely new feature in its PI7 truly wireless earbuds. Using the charging case as a wireless adapter, the earbuds can actually stream audio…Read more... Go to Source

As Weed Becomes More 'Acceptable,' Weed Gadgets Are Growing Up However you choose to blaze it today or any day, at this point, there’s a gadget out there to fit just about any style preference or format. And many of them look like small pieces of art in their own right.Read more... Go to Source

Terminally Ill Patients Deserve Access to General Anesthesia, UK Doctors Say Doctors and medical ethicists in the UK are calling for terminally ill patients to have the option of using general anesthesia prior to their death as a way to relieve suffering.Read more... Go to Source